Rich Eisen: Did the Lakers Blow It by Lowballing Dan Hurley??? | The Rich Eisen Show
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- čas přidán 9. 06. 2024
- Rich Eisen weighs in on Dan Hurley turning down the Lakers 6-year, $70M offer to remain at UConn.
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The Grass isn't always Greener on the other side! Has built a nice program there in Connecticut!
It's twice the money, but 4-5 times the work!!!
Not after taxes
Not after cost of living. You can't buy a 5K square foot home in LA for $1.5 mil .
nba basketball coaching is very overrated, twice as many basketball games, ask,, John beilen
No, they blew it be being an unstable organization that has a player with GM power and a track record of firing every coach since Phil after 2 years max
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That’s a massive scapegoat graveyard lebron owns full of players and coaches.
GM power but couldn’t get Ty lue or kyrie?? They should just give him 100% GM power.
Not to much on LeGM man
Why would he need generational money when he could coach the self-proclaimed GOAT?
The Lakers have always lowballed their coaches, Phil Jackson excepted. Add the hassle of coaching a noted coach killer in LeBron, a fragile big in Davis, and a team that might mortgage their draft picks just to finish in the play-in again, and it's easy to see why Hurley turned them down.
Disproving your own statement in the first 2 sentences. Maybe just remove the word always if you don’t know how to use it.
@@openmike4559 An exception to the rule still proves the rule tho. You'd be right if he said Phil and X and X excepted.
Accepted
@@shonda79able excepted is correct. "An exception to the rule still proves the rule". If it happens 99 out of 100 times, the 1 time does not disprove the 99. Phil's contract does not prove the Lakers to NOT be cheap when it comes to paying coaches
When grammar wars go wrong lol
Dan Hurley played this smart. Dipped his toes in the NBA conversation, boosted his stock, turned down dumpster fire of team, will get a great extension to stay at a great situation, recruiting will skyrocket to say "I turned down Lakers/Lebron"... All just from taking an interview.
Good for him!!! Stay in CT!!!!
Dr. Buss has been rolling in his grave for years. The Lakers are a shell of themselves.
Anything less than 8 years, $105 million was not a serious offer.
totally agree with that take. $70 milllion? Come on Lakers, step up.
Are we really sure Jeanie is anywhere near a good owner these days?
Good for Hurley. I wouldn't piss on the Lakers if they were on fire.
Yes. Given the "extra" stuff he would have to deal with - they lowballed him. But the Lakers don't acknowledge the cost of dealing with the Lakers. All should be grateful to be the Lakers' coach in their minds. He made the right decision.
It’s not a bad offer but it’s not an offer that blows you away either I was expecting something in the mid 80s and maybe that would have gotten the job done
$70M is California means about $35M. Then add in all the other California taxes....turns out to be about $6M a year. So yes , he was lowballed by the Lakers.
😂😂 these r facts sir
Hope everyone sees this lol because I'm sure he did the numbers in sometime after and said "no I'm good" lol
He seems to have been lowballed (though it is laughable when we say this of an offer that exceeds $10 mil annually), but note that Connecticut is also a fairly high tax state, at least in comparison with a lot of others.
Uh no ! He was offered a generous contract for a first time pro coach!! The taxes ???? You can say the same about nba players and many states. Weak take
Don't forget the agent fees and the other state taxes from the cities he has to coach in.
This is not brain surgery
Hurley is a back to back national champion chasing a 3 peat and the Lakers low balled him to coach a guy in LeBron who kills coaches careers and a big in Davis who does not stack up against Jokic in the same conference, and plus you probably won’t get roster control over who to trade for or draft cos as soon as you get the job you got to draft Bronny with a first round pick
The Lakers brand can kick rocks
Not worth it
He should’ve taken the Lakers job. He has nothing left to prove in college. I think it would’ve taken the Lakers job if they didn’t lowball their offer in terms of years and money.
Please reply
Hurley will eventually coach the Knicks.
Lakers maintain their perfect record as a negotiation tool
It’s not that good of a job for Hurley. You don’t get to coach, you have to manage around Lebron while being made scapegoat. Professional players aren’t going to buy his schtick or his demands. He’d be signing up to get fired in 2 years while also leaving the powerhouse he built up.
Lebron is a coach, team and cap killer. Why anyone would want to coach or play with him is beyond me. Throw in AD, fickle owners and a roster mess... smart pass by Dan.
I’m a Lakers Fan, and I will admit that as long as LeBron is on that roster, the Lakers coaching job is one that is not desirable. Nobody wants that drama on their resume.
I’m glad Hurley made the right career choice. I want to see a 3peat at UConn.
The Lakers need to reset. They can start by trading LeBron and get some of that $51M they are due to pay him this year off the books.
Getting rid of Davis wouldn’t be such a bad idea either. The Team Doctor averages more game minutes than he does.
A UConn 3-Peat is priceless!
I think he got cursed now
How is 70 mil a low ball for a first time NBA coach?
because of taxes in cali man lol that's why, it's the thing people aren't seeing
Because he had the leverage and the Lakers were desperate.
After taxes and agent fees breaks down to like 35 million that's not even 6 million a year lol.
Because you are poaching someone whi is happy from his current situation. The only reason Hurley will leave if the offer was so hard to refuse. They would have gotten Hurley for $120M for 7yrs.
Lakers are a poorer than a public university 🤣
The offer wasmore than a fair offer imo. I'm a big Dan Hurley fan but the fact is far more college coaches have failed in the NBA than succeeded and Hurley would have been a rookie head coach this season which is specifically the issue that Lakers fans had with Ham being hired.
Aren't the Lakers worth Well Over a Billion ? 70 Million for 6 Years ! " El Cheapos " ? 😞
Coaching Lebron may not be an enticement. He probably acts like a coach with the coaching staff.
If I'm Hurley, my price is starting at 20 million per year, fully guaranteed, in order for me to even consider leaving UConn. 6 years, 70 million isn't even close.
No way, dude has never coached in the NBA, Steve Kerr is the highest paid coach at 17 million per year and he has 4 titles to his name 😂😆
He's too smart to choose a situation where the expectations are unrealistic and the chances of succeeding are low. He will get the same offer from another team if he continues to be successful next year.
The Lakers are not a good gig. An approaching 40, LeBron James, a lazy 32-year-old Anthony Davis, and a bunch of who-are-they remainders? Please, Hurley probably thought...nah, I don't want that.
JJ Redick's contract 3 year 50 million
That's what's going to be
How else are they gonna pay Bronnie his monster contract solely for being LeBron's son?
After he wins the 3rd chip, Joe Tsai makes him a 8 year/120 million offer.
He has unfinished business at UConn and if he does finish that business, there will be plenty of huge NBA offers waiting for him. Head coach pay is only going up.
What were the odds of a northeast college basketball coach leaving for the Lakers job for any amount of money? NIL
college coaches coach,NBA coaches baby sit...How many coaches has Lebron gotten fired...This was a no brainer
Definitely wasn’t the money it was Lebron and his graveyard of coaches. He’s a certified coach killer and the REAL coach and gm. Also why leave a championship program for a team with a 40 something “goat” who will never win another championship on a team that would have missed the playoffs two years in a row if the play in didn’t exist
Its a ego jab at $11M, then having to babysit Lebron. Nah.....
6 yr 70 million is lowballing 😂😂???!!! FOH!!
Considering it will be half that after taxes and possibly end up in the Lebron scapegoat graveyard and move your family across the country. It’s a bad offer compared to what his peers are getting.
Monty Williams
that is a lowball offer
To me its more about not having any faith whatsoever in the organizational structure of the Lakers. Dan Hurley is not gonna play second fiddle to big personalities that just do nothing but scapegoat coaches when they dont do enough to win themselves. He sees the flaws of that team, he sees that he will not have a choice on his cabinet coming in, the Lakers always draft names whether they are great or not and they try and trade to win. There is no building anything in that organization. You either win now or you get all the blame. Nobody takes accountability there. Nobody
It’s bc he didn’t want to work with Rob Pelinka.
Asking Brockman to be rational is ridiculous. I’d move to CA in a SECOND. That’s not even close to a lowball offer.
Ppl just think what AW reports is accurate and it isn’t. Nobody gets a contract that long.
I don't think its really lowballing. 6 years is a long time for a rookie NBA coach, $70M at around 11.6M per year is decent. Especially with the economy and all the tons of regulations with the new CBA, 6 years at $70M is a pretty big commitment. Besides its the LA Lakers if you win big then there will be fame and fortune perks. And if you win a championship you can renegotiate any contract. Anyway it wasn't the money, being a head coach in the NBA isn't what it used to be, there are no iconic figures like in the past. Popovich is still a good coach but he is old and he won't ever coach anywhere else at this point. Maybe Steve Kerr or Spoelstra would be considered respected coaches but all the rest are disposable, they could be fired after one bad month. Every team runs the same spread the floor and shoot threes or have a high pick and roll etc. Most teams just rely on their top 2 players to be superstars so coaching strategies don't really matter as much.
Why would Hurley leave a stable legitimate job for the chaos and pandemonium of the Lakers
Good
It's not just the money. It's control and power. Hurley would have to deal with LeBron, the "real" GM. At UConn, Hurley is the GM, HC, chief cook, and bottle washer. Add to that Connecticut's high-end tax bracket of 6.9% vs California's 13.3%. But really, it's about staying with a historically great program where players are clamoring to come to, versus a team that is going to be in serious rebuild mode once LeBron retires and isn't all that good even now with him. The more I think about it, if Hurley isn't primarily motivated by money, sticking with UConn is a no-brainer.
The media is trying to shield LBJ per usual. Hurley dodged a bullet avoiding the LBJ circus, the LBJ scapegoating tactics, the extreme narcissist aka LBJ and the rest of the BS that comes from being tied to Lebron. Low ball? How he’d be a rookie head coach. The money amount is a deflection.
Half taken from taxes, no power to draft or recruit, high likelihood of being in the Lebron scapegoat graveyard, and have to move your family across the country to miserable LA. Yeah easy choice for DH.
The Lakers are a hot mess team that keeps firing their coach in 2 years to keep LeFlop happy. I think this is the smartest thing for the future they could do...they know they will have to eat the majority of the contract. They didn't want to pay Hurley 17 million a year in 2 years while he coached the Huskies again.
Money talks. His wife is from NJ and HATES living two states away and they already have a pretty good life. You really think 11 mil a year is going to win them over. If you hire a man who is married, you need to assume when you try to hire the man you are also trying to hire his wife. I'm going to assume that it would take twice as much to even get her to think about moving that far away from NJ.
The reasons Hurley turned down the Lakers was the dysfunctional natire of the team, a roster that is not championship level, and the biggest reason is named LeBron.
I'm tired of LeBron. Let's start fresh
Okay I seriously was not expecting a war in the comments section 😂
Hurley is no dummy, he probably values quality of life & stability.
Nba twice number of basketball 🏀 games ,
Jeannie is weak and always doubtful of her decisions. No wonder she always lean on Magic, Rambis’s, Pelinka, PJ, and Kobe when he was alive.
Having 7 coaches since 2011 is a joke. And JJ being considered just solidifies she’s not sure what to do. 🤦🏻♂️
Key phrase, "according to Woj"...
Kidney stone and stepping stone............vaccines out there in la
They did Hurley a favor.
Why would he take a job where LeBron is gone after 1 or 2 years and has no draft picks moving forward. The other star is at the back end of his prime and a walking potato chip injury. He will jump when he sees a future in a team on the east coast.
They definitely lowballed him.
Hurley made the correct decision.
Lakers facility is Slum. Crappy
You guys are clowns for even thinking he was taking the job. California’s the worst state!
Clear low ball considering his RE costs are far more in LA, taxes, the move itself and laker drama /headaches. He already knows what the new pay bump is from UConn so yes it’s low. He is a coach’s coach , not another talking head or former player.
Jeannie Buss still thinks her poop doesn't stink. With an aging superstar/legend and a mentally soft all star big man, Jeannie Buss thinks the Lakers are much better than it actually is. As long as she is running the team, the Lakers will never get a truly great coach.
$11 million is a low ball? SMH
Top money is $17M/yr. That would make this light.
the market say's yes.
@@snarkmark2806 yeah with no context its light but nowadays ppl love to leave that out lol. The guy making this 17 mill a year is Steve Kerr who has a .654 career winning percentage, four NBA titles, and was named one of the 15 greatest coaches in NBA history for the NBA’s 75th anniversary.... Yeah lets pay a guy with zero wins near the same WILD!!!
Amazing how this organization has turned to CRAP!
Nah his wife is the boss she didnt want to move to the west coast
six years $70 million which would have him as a top 6 highest paid coach in the NBA despite having no NBA experience is lowballing? 🤨
Lebron is toxic. Dan made the correct choice.
Lowballed 😂
Idk what taxes are like in Connecticut but California is insane. He may be losing money to go to LA.
Everything is more expensive. Hurley has 5,000 sq ft Glastonbury home that only costs $1.5 mill. You can't buy a teardown in LA for $1.5 M . That might get you a 2 bedroom condo.
@@daveclark8337 Oh no doubt! He couldn’t buy the property his house sits on in LA for 1.5mil.
Eisen thinks acting fey is good it is NOT good!
It’s safe to say the money wasn’t worth dealing with g with Lebron and the woke nonsense of the NBA. Change my mind
No need head coach.coz u dont have budget.
If I was him, i would not take Lakers because you have Lebron James that you have to kiss his butt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND any time James doesn't want you there, you are FIRED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!